The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Michael Swan-wick’s Periodic Table of Science Fiction, short-shorts inspired by the periodic table of the elements.” — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
How could you possibly call something science fiction at this point unless it has to do with something that hasn't been done?… — El-P Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Brandon tilted his head back and closed his eyes. Unbelievable. He had his name. God had given it. Just like Reece said… — James L. Rubart Copy Share Image
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.… — Donna Levin Copy Share Image
I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
“My new story collection won’t please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction', you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
“Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy centers around the “Seldon Plan” to shorten a reversion period from 30,000 years to 1,000 years.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted… — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
“The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend… — Tami Egonu Copy Share Image
I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction,… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny -… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning. Surely, while we live we are… — John Hepworth Copy Share Image
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